WORLD OF MISPLACED VALUES

Oh my beloved child

Bringing you into this

World of misplaced

Values resulting from

Materialistic revaluation

Of values where myopic

Thinking and misdirection

Of energy has led to

Escalation of hostilities

Instead of universal peace

Is a regrettable necessity

But I’ll do my best to guide

You; this is a place where

The strong are lords and

The weak their slaves.

Oh my little bundle of joy

This is a place where:

Evil is in perpetual struggle against good

Ugliness is leaving nothing to chance to

Lynch beauty

Ignorance is all out to give knowledge

A knockout

Falsehood has vowed to beat truth into coma

Hatred has given love a hammerlock

And war has given peace a sleeper hold

This is a place where people wear a coat

Of arrogance to hide their inadequacies

And the well-connected make a farce of

Justice.

Oh my precious jewel

Don’t view the world through rose colored

Glasses

Better the hut where you’re intoxicated with

Joy

Than the palace where you shed tears

Extol virtues such as: sincerity, forthrightness,

Tolerance, justice, truthfulness, and humility

Shun vices such as: indiscipline, corruption,

Waywardness and unquenchable quest for

Luxury and power.

Seek not easy way out of matters requiring

Perseverance, devotion and self-sacrifice

And you’ll bring the world to its knees.